Are Notable Stellar Phenomenon transient?

[CMDR-AD]

I was searching for a Q-Type phenomenon in a system which the Codex indicates one had been reported. I arrive, and can't find anything with the FSS. So I manually fly to the Lagrange points on the target planets, thinking I had to fly within 1000Ls for them to appear... still nothing.

Finally I search and find a video on YouTube of somebody in the same system, and their FSS does reveal the Notable Stellar Phenomenon signals. But I can't find them when I scan.

Do they come and go with time? Am I doing something wrong?

 

[Darth Wonko]

So, you honk with the Discovery Scanner and then do the FSS and you see none?

Do they show up in your Nav panel?

 

[Sapyx]

Short answer: yes. Notable Stellar phenomena appear and disappear, apparently at random. If you turn up in a sytem with known NSPs and you find none, relogging might make them appear.

 

[marx]

Also, some updates have broken previous NSPs, and apparently they are no longer where the Codex says they should be, even if you keep relogging. Which system are you in?

 

[CMDR-AD]

Thanks for the replies. I'm in (or was anyway) HIP 15310. The Codex reported two phenomenon in that system. I tried a relog into different modes, honked the Discovery Scanner fresh each time, and the FSS shows no signals for these. All of the stellar bodies are there, many transient signals are there.

From what I've seen, the phenomenon should appear along the Concentrated Signals band of the FSS, but even after resolving every single FSS signal on the scan, nothing.

 

[marx]

Did you look at the Navigation tab on your left, and see if the NSPs were on the list there? If you didn't, they might not have appeared in the FSS because of an error. It's quicker and more certain to use the list instead of the FSS anyway.
The last confirmed reports of the Q04 and Q08 anomalies in that present I could find were from a couple of days after Chapter Four's launch, so these might be gone after a subsequent update as well.

 

[CMDR-AD]

I did open the Navigation tab, but I had some filters set at the time... I am not sure if I had signal sources blocked or POI (maybe both), I need to check that.

Thanks for the advice. I will start checking the Navigation tab first, then the FSS second in my future exploration for these anomalies.